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Critic Noel Murray
rated 3

Boy, people sure were dumb in the 1880s, huh? That’s the major takeaway from Hysteria, a broad period comedy...

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Anna Smith
rated 6

Lightly humorous, well performed and not nearly as smutty as you might imagine.

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Critic Kirja Marie Touborg Jensen
rated 7

...'Hysteria' stiller med en ukuelig humor, som den med finesse placerer midt i det stive 1800-tal og en rigtig god historie.

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Critic Amat Levin
rated 7

Hysteria är rolig, inte så mycket för att manusförfattaren skriver bra skämt, utan för att historien om vibratorns uppfinnande, som filmen bygger på, är så tragikomiska i sin själv.

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Cast & Crew

Tanya Wexler
Director
Jonathan Pryce
As Dr. Robert Dalrymple
Rupert Everett
As Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe
Anna Chancellor
As Mrs. Bellamy
Gemma Jones
As Lady St. John-Smythe
Maggie Gyllenhaal
As Charlotte Dalrymple
David Ryall
As Judge

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In late 19th-century London, Dr. Mortimer Granville, a forward-thinking young physician, teams up with Dr. Robert Dalrymple, an expert in treating hysteria in women. Despite their differing approaches, they achieve remarkable success with their patients. However, when Mortimer's hand musculature fails him due to the high volume of clients, he turns to his friend Lord Edmund St. John-Smythe for help. They modify Edmund's electrical feather duster into a vibrator and use it on their patients with astounding results. With its growing popularity and the royalties from its sale, Mortimer becomes independently wealthy and pursues a romantic relationship with Charlotte Dalrymple while continuing their work together to establish a clinic at her settlement house in East London.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Hysteria include 27 Dresses, Crazy, Stupid, Love., New York, I Love You, The Lobster, No Reservations, (500) Days of Summer.

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Hysteria was released in theaters on May 18, 2012.